Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Ticket Scam Advisory - A's Fans Beware

I came across this post on craigslist. If it can save one poor soul from being scammed, then its worth the repost. Good Luck!

A's fans be advised: Hard tickets purchased for cash are NOT safe - $2 (So know who you are buying from or ..)

get them electronically. All Athletics tickets
can be sent by ticket-relay by anyone. Once that is done the hard
tickets are dead. Just as if they had been used for entrance. So unless
you are buying from someone you know or a ticket-broker, be careful.
When I do, I always enter the ticket codes into my relay account to
validate them. This will just tell you whether the ticket is still good.
It will not protect you from someone entering the ticket codes into
ticket-relay and relaying to tickets to someone else. Again if they do
that, your tickets will be dead. So to really protect yourself have the
seller relay the tickets to you. This generates a new bar code and only
you will have it.

I guarantee this post will be flagged and deleted quickly by all the
crooks and scammers out there. That is because they do not want the
truth to get out. If you read this post check back later to see if is
still here. I will try to re-post it when I can.

The $2 refers the small charge they used to charge for ticket-relay. Now
they do not charge. Since anyone can do ticket-relay there is now no
reason not to.

Many of you have seen this same post regarding Giants tickets. Since the Oakland Athletics are in the playoffs, their tickets
will the focus of the scammers. Same principal here. They will sell the
hard tickets that have already been transferred. So they are dead and
there is nothing you can do about it. Like the Giants, the A's will say
they are sorry for your loss but not replace the tickets. If you had
paid by Paypal at least you would get your money back. Make sure you get
acknowledgement from Ticket Services that you had the tickets. They
will not give them back to you.Have
any of you ever heard of Giants Ticket relay? It allows a ticket
holder/person to code into the site the ticket serial numbers and then email
or "relay" the tickets to somebody else. But, guess what happens to
the hardcopy ticket that was just relayed? It gets resold as a
hardcopy ticket. Now there are two tickets. If one ticket beeps
through the turnstile then the other one becomes invalid because the
first person is already in the park......get it?